Write - Definition

v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite]
2: communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every
week"
3: have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many
books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books
during her long career" [syn: publish, write]
4: communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
[syn: write, drop a line]
5: communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming
soon"
6: write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies" [syn:
compose, write]
7: mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese
characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is
written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
8: record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written
on the hard disk" [syn: write, save]
9: write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally
accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the
word wrong in this letter" [syn: spell, write]
10: create code, write a computer program; "She writes code
faster than anybody else"